Refresh for updates and winners: And so the curtain begins to draw on Sundance 2019 with tonight’s awards ceremony live from Park City, Utah, one of four kudos shows that Hollywood is celebrating tonight in addition to the Directors Guild Awards, the Annie Awards, and the Art Directors Guild Awards.

While some will say that Sundance has strayed from its indie roots as Hollywood continues to mine the festival in the snow of its indie feature treasures, the fact of the matter is that the Sundance jury typically votes with its hearts (last year’s U.S. dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post sold to FilmRise two months after the festival) instead of what’s been vogue over the week-and-a-half event. That said on a occasion you’ll see the most-buzzed title at the fest receiving kudos (i.e. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation after selling to Fox Searchlight for$17.5M in 2016 won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award).

Multi-hyphenate and Glow actress Marianna Palka whose feature Good Dick played Sundance in 2008 is hosting tonight’s show. She promised the crowd that she’s “the hostess with the most-ess.” Before she stepped onstage, the audience was treated to a performance by the Jambo African Drummers.

Said the Scottish-born Palka, “The Dalai Lama said the world will be solved by Western women, and she was talking about men too…There’s an overused male story structure you might be familiar with. It has one great climax, a beginning and an end. Then there’s a female story structure which has many great climaxes and never ends. Kind of like the female orgasm itself.” Palka continued to pepper her monologue with blue material, i.e. “Oral sex is the same as justified camera movement…If you don’t win an award, at least you’ll be able to give oral sex to someone you love. If you do win, the same is true.” But most of all, Palka waved a flag for female filmmakers, encouraging that their share of Sundance selections rises to 100%.

Heading into the festival, many thought streaming would prevail in vacuuming up all the product, but theatrical prevailed: Amazon shelled out close to $50M for four titles — Late Night ($13M), The Report ($14M), Brittany Runs a Marathon ($14M) (which just won the Audience Award for U.S. drama tonight) and today, Honey Boy ($5M). New Line scooped up Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light for $15M. Compare this to the streamers which took their pics for undisclosed amounts this year, down from 2017 when Netflix shelled out close to $37M for ten titles. This year to date, Apple took Minhal Baig’s Hala, Netflix’s acquired Richie Mehta’s Delhi Crime Story and Hulu picked up Ryan White’s doc Ask Dr. Ruth. 

Of the 112 feature-length pics that played this year’s festival, 53% of the directors in this year’s U.S. Dramatic Competition were women; 41% people of color; and 18% identified as LGBTQIA+. In addition, 44% of the directors in this year’s U.S. Documentary Competition were women; 22% people of color; and 5% identified as LGBTQIA+. Of the 61 directors in all four competition categories, which comprised 56 films, 42% were women, 39% people of color, and 23% identified as LGBTQIA. Of the 112 features, 33 countries were repped and 45 were from first-time filmmakers.

Palka says when she at the fest with Good Dick in 2008, she was the only female filmmaker.

So wherever you are, whether it’s rain-soaked Los Angeles or the powder-filled hills of Park City, or the 32-degree clear evening skies of New York City, grab a beer or a mug of wassail and take in tonight’s Sundance Film Festival awards.

The categories are as follows:

U.S. DRAMATIC
Jury: Desiree Akhavan, Damien Chazelle, Dennis Lim, Phyllis Nagy and Tessa Thompson

Grand Jury Prize
Clemency, director: Chinonye Chukwo

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Directing
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, director: Joe Talbot

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Share, Pippa Bianco

Special Jury Award – Vision and Craft
Honeyboy, director Alma Har’el

Special Jury Award – Creator Collaboration
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, director: Joe Talbot

Special Jury Award – Acting
Rhianne Barreto, Share

U.S. DOCUMENTARY
Jury: Yance Ford, Rachel Grady,  Jeff Orlowski, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Alissa Wilkinson

One Child Nation

Grand Jury Prize
One Child Nation, dir. Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang

Directing
American Factory, director: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Special Jury Award
Jawline, director Liza Mandelup

Special Jury Award – Moral Urgency
Always in Season, director Jacqueline Olive

Special Jury Award – Editing
Apollo 11, director: Todd Douglas Miller

Special Jury Award – Cinematography
Midnight Family, Luke Lorentzen

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Brittany Runs A Marathon

U.S. Dramatic
Brittany Runs a Marathon, director: Paul Downs Colaizzo

U.S. Documentary
Knock Down the House, director: Rachel Lears

World Cinema Dramatic
Queen of Hearts, director: May El-Toukhy

World Cinema Documentary
Sea of Shadows, director: Richard Ladkani

WORLD CINEMA COMPETITION

DRAMATIC
The jury here includes Jane Campion, Charles Gillbert and Ciro Guerra

The Souvenir

Grand Jury Prize
The Souvenir, director: Joanna Hogg
“A unanimous decision for the jury,” said Campion about the win here. A24 acquired the pic which stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Ariane Labed, and Richard Ayoade just as Sundance got underway this year.

Directing
The Sharks, director: Lucia Garibaldi

Special Jury Award
Monos, director Alejandro Landes

Special Jury Award for Originality
We Are Little Zombies, director Makoto Nagahisa

Special Jury Prize – Acting
Krystyna Janda, Dolce Fine Giornata

Honeyland

DOCUMENTARY
Jury: Maite Alberdi, Nico Marzano and Verena Paravel

Grand Jury Prize
Honeyland
Directors:  Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov

Directing
Cold Case Hammarskjold
Director: Mads Brugger

Special Jury Award – No Borders
Midnight Traveler
Directors:  Hassan Fazili

Special Jury Prize
Honeyland
Directors:  Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov

Special Jury Award – Cinematography
Honeyland, Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma

NEXT Innovator Award, Jury: Laurie Anderson

The Infiltrators

Directors: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera

NEXT Innovator Prize

The Infiltrators

Directors: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera

NEXT Audience Award

Previously Announced Awards:

Sundance Institute NHK Award
Planet Korsakov, director: Taro Aoshima

Amazon Studios Producers Awards:
Documentary Feature Producer: Lori Cheatle

Narrative Feature Producer: Hugo Parker, Matt Parker

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor

SHORTS COMPETITION
Jury: Young Jean Lee, Sheila Vand,  Carter Smith

SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY AWARD – Grand Jury Prize
Aziza, director Soudade Kaadan

SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY AWARD – Directing
Fast Horse, director: Alexandra Lazarowich
The Minors, director: Robert Machoian

SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY AWARD – NONFICTION
Ghosts of Sugar Land, director: Bassim Tariq

SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY AWARD – ANIMATION
Reneepopiosis, director: Renee Zhan

SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY AWARD – INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Dunya’s Day, director: Raed Alsemari

SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY AWARD – U.S. FICTION
Green, director: Suzanne Andrews Correa